I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think… — Meg Tilly Copy Share Image
I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you… — George Halas Copy Share Image
The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I really don't write much anymore, and I'm not uncomfortable with that. I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life,… — Edoardo Ponti Copy Share Image
“--'What did Mum want?' --'She said not to give away the milk for free.' --'You're not livestock. Go out with me?' --Not… — Emily Evans Copy Share Image
A knife!" I yelled, still brandishing my pillow. "Jim, I command you to get me a gelding knife. If this guy wants… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
No its you," she said. How far away her voice sounded, as though it had traveled to London already, ahead of her.… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When you speak a foreign language, you become someone else. If you aren't used to speaking a language, and you start speaking… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
It can be a simple sentence that makes one single point and you build for that. You zero in on one moment… — Jack Lemmon Copy Share Image
When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
A dependent clause (a sentence fragment set off by commas, dontcha know) helps you explore your story by moving you deeper into… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness." He spoke every sentence as if he'd written it down,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a… — James Salter Copy Share Image
You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
But the solution to the riddle of life and space and time lies outside space and time. For, as it should be… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence.… — George Polya Copy Share Image
That's the hardest thing to do-to stay with a sentence until it has said what it should say, and then to know… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United… — Marek Belka Copy Share Image
I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line. — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward. — Helen Hunt Copy Share Image
He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key… — John Huston Copy Share Image
A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit.… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
As a general rule, no one should ever be allowed to say there is no history of racial tension here, because that… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
Graham's wonderful sentence as, an investor needs only two things: cash and courage. Having only one of them is not enough. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
